The second theatrical trailer for the fourth film in the Underworld franchise, Underworld Awakening, has arrived online. While it doesn't spend as much time focusing on Kate Beckinsale emerging naked from a cryogenic tank as the first trailer released in August, this new trailer demonstrates that the marketing team at Screen Gems knows exactly how to sell their Underworld movies. Yeah, there's ample slow motion action, including gunfight as well as elaborately acrobatic leaping, flipping, and stabbing. And yeah, the story, such as it is, is laid out, with Bekinsale's vampiric assassin Selene emerging from twelve years of captivity to a world where humans are winning an ongoing open war with both vampires and werewolves. But the big selling point is undoubtedly Beckinsale in Selene's signature shiny black leather costume looking dangerous, pale, and sexy. How overtly is the marketing based around this? The big tagline is simply, "Kate Beckinsale in 3D." That oughta do it.
All the various shades of blue on display in this trailer can be viewed in high definition at Yahoo! Movies, where it premiered today.
Beckinsale sat out the last installment in the franchise, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, a prequel which established the beginnings of the vampire-lycan feud and starred fellow attractive British person Rhona Mitra in the requisite role of sexy killer vampire. Len Wiseman, Beckinsale's real-life husband who directed Underworld and Underworld: Evolution, also opted out of that one as director, and since he's been exceedingly busy helming that Total Recall remake, he doesn't return along with his bride for Underworld Awakening. He remains involved as a producer, but Swedish duo Mans Marlind and Bjorn Stein direct this time out, working from a screenplay by Allison Burnett.
Underworld Awakening 3D hits theaters on January 20, 2012.
